Myoid Cells and Neuroendocrine Markers in Myasthenic Thymuses

Archivum Immunologiae et Therapiae Experimentalis

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 253-257

  Zółtowska, Albina ^a   Pawełczyk, Tadeusz ^a   Stopa, Maciej ^a   Skokowski, Jan ^a   Stepiński, Jan ^a   Roszkiewicz, Andrzej ^a   Nyka, Walenty ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

Author keywords

Immunohistochemical and immunoblot analysis; Myasthenia gravis; Myoid cells; Synaptophysin; Thymus

Indexed keywords

CHROMOGRANIN; CHROMOGRANIN A; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PATHOLOGY; THYMOMA; THYMUS;

ADULT; AGED; CHROMOGRANIN A; CHROMOGRANINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; THYMOMA; THYMUS GLAND; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0031604398     PISSN: 0004069X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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